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What ficcish activity have you done today?
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Today's discussion topic: The flipside of yesterday, what don't you like reading or writing and are they two different things?
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Date: Monday, August 8th, 2011 22:16 (UTC)I don't tend to like a lot of AUs! They just don't draw me in all that often. I also seem to have read a lot more bad genderswap than good/interesting genderswap (that might be partly a function of my fandoms & that I don't tend to fic for fandoms I'm not in). So I don't write either of those things either, natch!
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Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 00:59 (UTC)Most kink is not my thing--not that I'm a prude, 'cause I don't mind NC-17 stuff, I don't even mind slash if it's done well and I can suspend my disbelief and buy the pairing. Mpreg is just not interesting to me, not that I've run into much of it.
What I really don't like reading is bad fic. :P Unfortunately I'm very picky and have pretty high standards. If I'm not reeled in right off the bat, I'm done. If I'm inundated with bad spelling, punctuation, grammar, etc right off the bat, I'm done. My reading time is too valuable to waste.
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Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 01:29 (UTC)For the discussion topic: I'll read most things if I see them recced somewhere. The only trope I really don't care about are high school AUs, though that's probably because I associate too many unfunny teen movies with that.
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Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 01:32 (UTC)Funnily, the sheer amount of frustratingly bad genderswap actually got me into writing one.
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Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 01:44 (UTC)I tend to avoid OCs like the plague (though I'm guilty of writing some every now and again). In my experience, I've only very, very rarely seen one in fic that I've found palatable. They tend to take away attention from that characters I'm reading for. I also try to avoid reading and writing anything too smutty or kinky, mostly because I'm asexual and really don't "get" what turns people on, hahah.
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Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 01:53 (UTC)I don't tend to read or write fic that has distressful ending. The world is gloom enough without me adding to it.
I also avoid fic that details how a characters is broken without parts. It feels uncomfortable.
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Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 06:55 (UTC)Pretty much a few shipping stuff like incest, adult/child, and non-con I don't tend to read because I'm not drawn into them at all.
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Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 08:38 (UTC)I'm very picky with what I read (in my small fandoms not as picky as I would be otherwise, but still) so there's a lot I normally don't even give a try. AUs, kink, character death, dark fic, curtain fic, kid fic, non-con, ...
As for writing, I tend to be drawn to the funny, light-hearted or matter-of-fact stuff, not to overly emotional stuff. (Although I read the latter, too.)
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Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 13:17 (UTC)What don't I like to write? I'm not keen on crossovers (although one of my most popular stories is a crossover, so go figure). I also tend to steer away from anything that includes a lot of action (including NC-17) because it's so darn hard to choreograph!
As far as things I don't like to read - I don't care for slash or RPF; I tend to stay very canon-ish in my reading. Beyond that, I gravitate towards things that are really well written, things that really give me something to dig into and think about, so if I click into a story and it's poorly written, I usually won't stick around to finish it.
For the mods, here's a suggestion for a future discussion topic: I used to write exclusively in past tense, but after I'd seen a number of people use present tense and it seemed to work well for them, I gave it a try - and now it's an effort for me to write in past tense! I'd love to see what everyone in the comm thinks about this trend, whether they enjoy it or not, does it influence your own writing and so on.
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Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 13:18 (UTC)Hope you have a great time on your holidays! :)
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Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 13:21 (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 14:55 (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 15:48 (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 15:49 (UTC)I think bad fic is something none of us like (except to make us feel better about our own writing!).
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Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 15:50 (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 17:57 (UTC)Also, trying to deal with an unexpected thing happening to a particular character (will the reader buy it etc etc), but it would be unexpected whoever it happened to so I'm telling myself that its not a problem - people are supposed to be surprised.
What I dislike in fic: I'm sure I've got lots of little fussy dislikes that arn't really important if the prose is enjoyable. One thing I do abhor though is the appropriation of a fictional character for a polital or social cause completely out of line with any canon reference - that just plain annoys me, well written fic or not.
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Date: Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 12:04 (UTC)That's definitely an interesting topic, in fact I think it's more interesting than the one I had planned for today so we'll see what the comm thinks :)